This short comedy is not really very entertaining, relying as it does on some stale gags that can't have been all that funny even at the time. Given the material, it does tell the story clearly, but the story is neither interesting nor enjoyable. There is a stretch of film missing towards the end, but even if it were included, it would probably only fix the gap in the action, rather than adding anything significant.
The setup has a group of young women swimming in a stream as two vagrants decide to try to steal the clothes that the swimmers have left on the shore. This 'comedy' idea seems to pop up every so often in long-ago movies and stories, and even the great author Chekhov used it as a plot device in one of his short stories. But this movie is not Chekhov or even close, and it tries to use the idea as the foundation for the whole plot, rather than as just one component, and that stretches it too far. The closing gag, likewise, is an old one that isn't that funny either.
In general, it's good to be rather lenient in evaluating the films made in this era, but some of them are really just not all that good, and this is one of them.
The setup has a group of young women swimming in a stream as two vagrants decide to try to steal the clothes that the swimmers have left on the shore. This 'comedy' idea seems to pop up every so often in long-ago movies and stories, and even the great author Chekhov used it as a plot device in one of his short stories. But this movie is not Chekhov or even close, and it tries to use the idea as the foundation for the whole plot, rather than as just one component, and that stretches it too far. The closing gag, likewise, is an old one that isn't that funny either.
In general, it's good to be rather lenient in evaluating the films made in this era, but some of them are really just not all that good, and this is one of them.